The Charenton Psychiatric Hospital is located in the neighbouring commune Charenton-Saint-Maurice, which changed its name in 1842 to Saint Maurice.

A Bronze Age hoard of weapons was found in the river Seine at Charenton in the late nineteenth century.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, Charenton was the scene of the ecclesiastical councils of the Protestant party, which had its principal church in the town.

Until the time of the Revolution it was used as a general hospital, and even as a prison, but from 1802 onwards it was specially appropriated to the treatment of mental illness.

[7] Charenton shares the association football club CA Paris-Charenton with the nearby town Maisons-Alfort.